To miss the days when people were just 'thirsty'?!

[Babycham1979]

What's all this shit with, 'hydrating'? It's called drinking fucking water!

Whenever I hear someone claiming to be 'dehydrated', I want to reach for my revolver. No, dear, you're not dehydrated, you're just thirsty. It won't hurt you to wait twenty minutes for a drink.

Advanced capitalism, combined with nanny-statism seems to have fostered a nation of adult-babies who can't got five minutes without a snack, needing a piss, or a plastic bottle to suck on. It truly does my head in.

I can't remember the last time I sat through a film or a play without multiple audience members nipping out at least once during the show. Yes, I do appreciate that SOME people suffer incontinence, or might have needed a shot of insulin but, come on, not on this scale!

Zing

Ah, I see! Unfortunately I have failed to drink the requisite amount of Irn Bru (reportedly better than water, we've learnt!) to develop the extra cones in my eyes to read said invisible footnotes.

Im not imagining Im dehydrated < how dare you>

Im actually not dehydrated - because Ive drunk lots of lovely water today

Prov

here, let me lend you my imaginery footnote reading glasses.
they are actually anti-bullshit treated so you will not have permanent brain damage from reading the utter bollocks we have to put up with

My low blood pressure, is all in my imagination. It's a pity medical science couldn't invent some sort of a device for measuring blood pressure. Then a qualified medical person could tell me if I'm imagining it or not.

I 'suckle' pepsi max every day, all day! I'm screwed.

This thread is really quite bonkers.

I have noticed my children have had it drummed into their heads at school to drink water all the time. My son took two bottles of tap water out for a 30 minute bike ride. It would not have crossed my mind to take a bottle of water for a quick bike ride, but it seems like his school really do stress and over blow the importance of drinking it.

charis for for your information (but others may be interested to know too) to calculate how much fluid you need, the rough formular for a normal healthy adult is 30mls of fluid per kilo of body weight. In otherwords if you weigh 50kilos you would need to drink approx 1500 mls of fluid per day. (Obvs not if you are on fluid restriction due to health issues in which case your GP or cons will have told you.) Most adults do not do this! The suckysuckers you are so critical about are actually being sensible! Yes of course you can 'overdose' on fluid, which can have an adversre reaction on the electrolyte balance in the body and be very dangerous, but this is exceedingly rare

all this water drinking/hydrating is just an unfortunate after effect of the prolific use of ecstasy twenty or so years ago.

when you see somebody glughing from a bottle of evian they might as well just advertise the fact by wearing a neon global hypercolour t-shirt emblazoned with the logo 'ageing druggie'

dehydration my arse...

Zing

Thankyou kindly.

"I have listed the ways the sucky sucky baby bottle habit inconveniences me. It is a constant source of noise, time wasting and mess. It is also a dirty, germ spreading habit and environmentally damaging. It cuts into productivity massively. And there is no need or reason for any of this, it is just a totally artificially induced faddy dependency.

yes it is bloody annoying for many of us, But I don't think it will last long. Just until the pendulum swings the other way again, or the court cases start.
Charis - we cannot, as a general rule, control what others do around us in public spaces. But we can control our reactions towards them. We can choose to be irritated by people drinking water out of sports bottles, or we can choose to ignore that behaviour and to use techniques such as those cognitive behavioral therapy teaches to modify our reactions to them.

I have been learning how to do this, with relation to the bullying I suffered as a child, my reactions to it then and now, and the depression I suffer as a result. It is a work in progress, but if I can use these techniques to cope with a serious issue like this, I am sure it would work for more trivial irritations.

Those that are bothered by the water drinkers, do any of you have misophonia?

You've said it's a germ spreading habit but I don't remember seeing an explanation of how it spreads germs. Apologies if I've missed it.

A lot of things are germ spreading habits though - breathing near other people, touching things that other people touch, coughing. If you thought about all the things around you every day that had germs on them you'd lock yourself in the house. Where you'd be subject to your own germs anyway.

Agree with STDG posts about a healthier way to deal with the anger and frustration when you cannot change people's behaviour - you can change your own behaviour and your reactions to other people.

This thread has turned into a completely fantastic mad wind-up.

Now I know that my sipping to alleviate the dry mouth my medication causes annoys twatty people so much, I'm going to have to up my SPM (sips per minute) significantly.

I am inspired to start raising money so all the watering holes in the Savannah can be filled with coffee.

It isn't.
you are imagining it.
water is not real. thirst is unnatural.
unicorns are not to be confused with welly sporting hedgehogs and cucumber donkeys.
there's no such thing as hydration.
these are not even words.
I'm not posting this

Who is Zing?

not me!

Zing

Zing pings,
ping zing pings all the things that ping,
zing.

:)

Sip, slurp, dribble.

And repeat.

Aaah.

HR where I work are already grumbling about the passive aggressive aspect of this issue, and I think you find a lot of HR departments are.

Maybe the HR departments in your head.

Capitalism??? I mean, can you image Gordon Gecko??

Wow, what a thread

Let's hope Charis isn't responsible for teaching logic and reasoning, eh?